Linux-Setup Digest #647, Volume #20 Fri, 16 Feb 01 21:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: bind 9.1.0 on Linux 7 as secondary server (Gregory Davis)
Re: Printer won't respond to 'cat testfile > /dev/lp0' (John Hasler)
Re: [Q] newbie about TELNET into LINUX problem? (J Sloan)
User permissions for vfat mount ("Scott L. Foglesong")
Re: Linksys PCI (tulip) network card... (Edwin Johnson)
Re: Simple fax program (Edwin Johnson)
Re: hostname (John Thompson)
Re: ftp server help required....please help (Jeff Gerard)
Re: ftp server help required....please help (Jeff Gerard)
Re: Unix sys admin looking for advice on Lixus distro for home pc... (Edwin Johnson)
Re: User permissions for vfat mount (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Help for ATA 100 !! ("Ralph H. Stoos Jr.")
Re: Installing Linux onto a second hard drive ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Partition Options ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Invisible ".filename" files in user ftp directories ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: syslogd or rpc.statd errors? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Help for ATA 100 ! (root)
Mouse works in setup but not at runtime (john slimick)
Re: Sharity on Linux question ("Xiaopong Tran")
inittab file question ("kellyboy")
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From: Gregory Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bind 9.1.0 on Linux 7 as secondary server
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:22:59 -0500
York Pang wrote:
> I am configuring a Linux 7 box to run BIND 9.1.0 as secodary DNS server. I
> did a normal compiling (without any options) on a fresh box. When I start
> the named, the sever always start without pulling data files from the
> primary server. In the log file, I get error for all zones that supposed to
> transfer to local.
>
> "Feb 16 14:36:24 ns /usr/local/sbin/named[22624]: transfer of
> 'k2ecommunications.
> net' from 100.100.100.6#53: receiving responses: permission denied
> Feb 16 14:36:24 ns /usr/local/sbin/named[22624]: transfer of
> 'k2ecommunications.
> net' from 100.100.100.6#53: end of transfer"
>
> I am sure on the primary server, I have gave zone transfer permission to
> this secondary server. I doubt this has some to do with the Linux "security
> feature" (drop root privileges when start), but I have no idea to how to fix
> it.
>
> Can anyone give me some suggestion?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> York
what is linux 7? I thought we were up to kernel 2.4.1. Red Hat has a
distribution 7 out and is working on 7.1. SuSE has a 7 out and has just
released 7.1. I don't know what the others are at now.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Printer won't respond to 'cat testfile > /dev/lp0'
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 22:57:48 GMT
Cameron Kerr writes:
> Printing plain text this way can be dodgy on Postscript printers. So I
> imagine that InkJet printers are no different in this respect.
Yes. Not only will my BJC1000 not print plain text, but asking it to do so
hangs it.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: [Q] newbie about TELNET into LINUX problem?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:16:30 GMT
MCC wrote:
> Every time while we "telnet"
> from other computer into this LINUX server, we have following proble:
>
> %telnet 192.9.204.201
> Trying 192.9.204.201...
> Connected to 192.9.204.201.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> User Access Verification
>
> Password:
> Password:
> Password:
> % Bad passwords
> Connection closed by foreign host.
That is not linux, you are connecting to a router or something.
This is what telnet to Red Hat 6.1 looks like:
Trying 10.63.12.100...
Connected to raven
Escape character is '^]'.
Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
Kernel 2.2.18 on an i686
login:
Doublecheck your IP address, and check for
a cisco box or something using that address -
jjs
>
>
> No matter which password I type, it make NO difference and their has NO userID
> for me to type. Sometime the following screen will come out(don't know why) and
> I can login without problem:
>
> Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
> Kernel 2.2.12-20 on an i686
> login:
>
> Their also have another problem. If I lucky "telnet" into this server and did not
> touch this "telnet" session for 5 minutes, it will automatic disconnect. Does
> their has way to fix?
>
> Thanks
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From: "Scott L. Foglesong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: User permissions for vfat mount
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:21:03 -0800
Hello all--
I have several vfat partitions (i.e., FAT32) mounted as //mnt/drivec,
and //mnt/drived. These come up just fine (they're in fstab).
However, they're accessible for writing only by root. I've tried
changing the mode to allow all users to read-write, but that doesn't
seem to work.
I've also played around some with the DOS options (that you see in the
LinuxConf settings for accessing local drives in RH7), but anything I do
there seems to render the partition almost unaccessible across the
board.
Could someone point me in the right direction for finding out how to
deal with this? I looked through the HOWTOs and I didn't find anything
that seemed specific to this kind of a problem--although perhaps the
information is somewhere in there, and I overlooked it.
Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Scott Foglesong
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Johnson)
Subject: Re: Linksys PCI (tulip) network card...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 Feb 2001 13:59:51 GMT
I have an LNE-100TX (believe that's the number) at the office working in a
PCI slot. Had to go to this url and download the latest driver along with
the other three files mentioned on the page and it worked perfectly.
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/tulip.html
Email if you wnat to discuss it more. ...Edwin
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:45:11 -0600, Dominic Vernius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Has anyone had success getting one of these
>buggers working?
>
>The card worked fine in Win98 (when this box
>was once a dual-boot).
>
>I need to install an ISA SB AWE32 card.
>Only one ISA slot in this PackardHell box.
>
>Thanx in advance.
>
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~ Edwin Johnson ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
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~ earth with your eyes turned skyward, ~
~ for there you have been, there you long ~
~ to return." -- da Vinci ~
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Johnson)
Subject: Re: Simple fax program
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 Feb 2001 14:03:49 GMT
Think that xfax would work beautifully for you. It uses the efax module and
is very easy to configure. I have it working in Slackware40.
...Edwin
On 11 Feb 2001 17:39:37 GMT, Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am looking for a fax program that can simply send/receive faxes.
>I have looked at Hylafax, but it seems to be an overkill.
>Could someone suggest other packages that is EASY to configure
>and use ?
>I am running Slackware if that matters.
>
>Thanks a million.
>
>Best Regards,
>Eric Ho
>
>
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~ Edwin Johnson ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
~ http://www.shreve.net/~elj ~
~ ~
~ "Once you have flown, you will walk the ~
~ earth with your eyes turned skyward, ~
~ for there you have been, there you long ~
~ to return." -- da Vinci ~
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hostname
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:37:37 -0600
Tom wrote:
> Hi, all. I use RH7.0 and I want to change the hostname, but I encounter
> problems. My default name is "localhost.localdoamin", I change it to
> "soybean.apple" and send email use PINE. I find the email address has
> changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately, when I reboot it next time,
> the hostname has changed to "localhost.locadoamin"! I try to change it to
> "something.com", it's ok, the only problem is that it cannot be shut down or
> reboot. I change it just do "#hostname soybean.apple". Is it because I
> forget anything??
Two thoughts: change the hostname in the boot script that sets it
to "localhost.localdomain." Or, don't reboot.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Jeff Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp server help required....please help
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:17:39 -0600
Have a look at this link....
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Administration/wuftpd/
In article <96di66$b5p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Hi,
> I have redhat 7 installed. I am trying to setup an anonymous ftp server. So
> far i can log in as an anonymous user, but when i try to upload anything,
> the ftp client tells me that i do not have permissions to upload
> anything...since this server won't allow it.
>
> Can anyone please help me out, what do i need to do so that anonymous users
> can upload to the ftp server?
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
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From: Jeff Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp server help required....please help
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:37:26 -0600
In article <MFyi6.80579$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
Personally, I use NCFtpD from http://www.ncftp.com
It's easy to configure and lots of support from the author.
> I recomend you to try PROFTPD in http://www.proftpd.org instead of WU or
> other FTP clients.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Johnson)
Subject: Re: Unix sys admin looking for advice on Lixus distro for home pc...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16 Feb 2001 14:12:11 GMT
Given your background in unix, my recommendation would be Slackware. It was
one of the first of the distributions and from what I've read, the directory
tree is more like unix than the other distributions. I am running Slackware
4.0 after having run 3.2 for about a year. I have nothing but high praise
for it and with it you have good installation procedures which can be
somewhat automatic or manual, depending upon your preference and
understanding. I actually used a unix handbook when first learning about
linux, so the system should be somewhat natural to you.
...Edwin
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 21:44:52 GMT, SFShadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Good afternoon. I'm a unix solaris sys admin and i'm looking to install
>linux on my home i386 pc along with win98 so I can start to get a feel for
>the linux os. I would like to get some advice on which distro to go with.
>I'm currently contemplating freebsd, netbsd, or debian. I want to learn
>linux config, setup, etc.. so that's why i'm looking at these versions
>although i haven't made a decision yet.My home pc specs:
>intel pIII 450mhz, ibm deskstar 10gb hd, agp vodoo3 3000 video card, tekram
>motherboard(128 mb ram), and a us robotics 56k internal modem. I'm not sure
>if all this detail is necessary but this is my first crack at installing
>linux so based on my system( i'm thinking to repartion my hd-7 gb win98 and
>3gb linux), what disto would be the best to go with (and most compatible)?
>any suggestions or comments are welcome. Thanks.
>
>
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~ Edwin Johnson ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
~ http://www.shreve.net/~elj ~
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~ "Once you have flown, you will walk the ~
~ earth with your eyes turned skyward, ~
~ for there you have been, there you long ~
~ to return." -- da Vinci ~
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: User permissions for vfat mount
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:55:02 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scott L. Foglesong wrote:
> Hello all--
>
> I have several vfat partitions (i.e., FAT32) mounted as //mnt/drivec,
> and //mnt/drived. These come up just fine (they're in fstab).
>
> However, they're accessible for writing only by root. I've tried
> changing the mode to allow all users to read-write, but that doesn't
> seem to work.
>
> I've also played around some with the DOS options (that you see in the
> LinuxConf settings for accessing local drives in RH7), but anything I do
> there seems to render the partition almost unaccessible across the
> board.
>
> Could someone point me in the right direction for finding out how to
> deal with this? I looked through the HOWTOs and I didn't find anything
> that seemed specific to this kind of a problem--although perhaps the
> information is somewhere in there, and I overlooked it.
>
> Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Scott Foglesong
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Here a line of my /etc/fstab with umask-entry for read/write-access:
/dev/hda5 /Daten vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
man umask (uarrgh !)
Cheers
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Using S.u.S.E. 5.3 and SuSE 7.0
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From: "Ralph H. Stoos Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Help for ATA 100 !!
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:52:53 -0500
All,
I have recently acquired a Athlon 1 Gigahertz with and ASUS A7V
motherboard and a half Gig of RAM (and other stuff) in the hopes of
making a killer Linux box which of course will accomplish any task
instantly. Last night I sat down to install Redhat 7.1beta with 2.4
kernel..
The motherboard is set up to use primary and secondary ATA 100
interfaces (of which I have one connected to a 30 gigger) and also
another set of interfaces for primary and secondary plain old EIDE
drives. You would think on the surface that you could connect up to 8
drives all told.
Here is how I am set up. I have the 30 Gig ATA-100 drive set as primary
master and there is no ATA-100 secondary drives at all. As the EIDE
Secondary Slave I have a TDK 16X burner.
When the system boots, I get the standard Award BIOS message as it
discovers EIDE drives. It does detect the CD-ROM. Then, it launches a
special ATA-100 detector program and sees the 30 gig as the Primary Master.
It will not boot the CD to install so I made a boot disk and tried
that. I get the Install screen from floppy but after all is said and
done, it reports that it finds no drive to install on in the machine.
Please tell me I just need a special ATA-100 driver on the boot disk or
a version of Linux supports ATA-100.
Please reply to the group but also:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks in advance,
Ralph
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux onto a second hard drive
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:04:04 +0100
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This is probably a really stupid question, but for the life of me, I
>> cannot seem to find any instructions anywhere about installing Linux
>> on a second hard drive. Everything I read about installing Linux with
There aren't any. The instructions are the same as for installing it
on your first drive (just as the instructions for painting your house
are the same as the instructions for painting your neighbours house).
> Just delete all the partitions on the second drive, and continue with the
> install.
> There's no difficullty installing linux on a second HDD.
Just so.
> Preferably you would have it connected as hdb
> (ie. slave on the first IDE controller)
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Options
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:20:49 +0100
Sanjay Agrawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Since you guys are at this - I hope you wouldnt mind telling me why is the
> third partition in this scheme named
What scheme?
> hda5 and not hda3. has it to so with the fact that hda1 is extended.
?? hda5 is the first partition in the extended partition, always.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Invisible ".filename" files in user ftp directories
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:45:34 +0100
Dan Poynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Isn't telnet considered a text client? I did mention I can telnet in and do
Well, it's hardly a text FTP client, is it?
> "ls -la" in a directory and the .filename files are definitely there. And
>> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 13:40:02 -0800, Dan Poynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> has a checkbox "show hidden files". The question is, does 'ls -a' work in
>> a text ftp client? And does enabling "show hidden files" in a gui client
>> work? So far, you have not even said if 'ls -a' in a text client works.
Try again as advised. This time with brain engaged.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: syslogd or rpc.statd errors?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:03:42 +0100
Dan Poynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> below. Recently I have been updating several RedHat 6.2 packages,
> If anyone is familiar with this kind of error I'd could use some tips to
> resolve.
> Feb 15 08:27:16 server syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> Feb 15 08:27:16 server syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> Feb 15 08:27:16 server syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> Feb 15 13:35:05 server rpc.statd[343]: gethostbyname error for
> ^X^X^Y^Y^Z^Z^[^[%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%236x%n%1
> 37x%n%10x%n%192x%n\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2
> 20\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2
> 20\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2
> 20\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2
> 20\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2
> 20\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2
> 20\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2
> 20\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2
> 20\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2
> 20\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2
> 20\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\2
> 20\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220
> Feb 15 13:35:06 server rpc.statd[343]: ....
> The same rpc.statd statement is then repeated four more times. Maybe that's
> somekind of buffer overload attempt or something?
It most certainly looks like it! Block access to statd at once, and
track the culprit.
Peter
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help for ATA 100 !
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:22:58 GMT
On my system I use a promise ultra-66 add-on card. RedHat 7.0 installer
didn't see the hard drive until I typed the following at the boot prompt:
linux ide2=0xd400
Where 0xd400 is the io port of your ide card. This may or may not help,
but I thought it might give you some ideas. BTW, there is a ng called
comp.os.linux.redhat that might be useful to post your question there.
Doug
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john slimick)
Subject: Mouse works in setup but not at runtime
Date: 17 Feb 2001 01:36:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To make a long story short I had
to reinstall RH 6.0 tonight. When I was
in the Xconfigurator part of the install,
my mouse worked fine. But when I logged in,
went via XWindows into KDE
the mouse was frozen in one and only position
on the screen.
I tried several different mice and both serial
ports, and my final try was a Honeywell
mouse. Nothing worked. Fine in Xconfigurator
at install time, dead in KDE.
Could this be a KDE problem that I could solve
by going to Gnome? I really have no idea
of what to do next.
(The reason for the reinstall was that RH6.2
for some reason made network times absolutely
terrible. [SMC Ultra EISA card] 6.0 gives me
decent performance, but no mouse.)
Thanks in advance
john slimick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Xiaopong Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sharity on Linux question
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:55:03 GMT
>
> Why don't you use smbfs?
>
I'd like to be able to mount as normal user. smbfs has
to be root.
Xiaopong
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From: "kellyboy" <kellyboy@nospanner>
Subject: inittab file question
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 20:08:20 -0600
Im not sure which newsgroup to post this one under but here goes...
I've been reading various article about 'init' and 'inittab'
In inittab. it has three fields
ID,RUNLEVEL,ACTION,PROCESS
what purpose does "ID" serve and who(Linux program??) use it?? and how did
whoever wrote inittab for thier distro came up with ID such as SU, or
c1,c2,c3,...and etc
it seems ID is just a randomly generated letters and numbers??
kellyboy
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